NEW: Biden isn't just picking a running mate - he may be anointing a frontrunner in '24, when he'll be 82 and Dems likely wouldn't pass over the first female VP
w @alexburnsNYT on why it's not only the virus that's making the veepstakes so unusual >
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w @alexburnsNYT on why it's not only the virus that's making the veepstakes so unusual >
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As the ever candid @SenatorReid put it:
“Joe being 77, I think people are going to look to see who is the person who could be the next president”
“Joe being 77, I think people are going to look to see who is the person who could be the next president”
As one Dem noted: after Hillary’s loss, at least one Trump term, the defeat of three female senators in the 2016 primary and the Reade allegations against Biden, the Democratic Party of 2024 isn’t likely to nominate another man
So this is very much a vp nomination worth having
So this is very much a vp nomination worth having
correx: three women defeated in the *2020* primary
The demands of the post-virus recovery has some Dems urging Biden to make a governing pick
@HeidiHeitkamp invoked the last time a party nominated someone so old:
“This has to be someone capable of being president,” she said, alluding to “the lesson John McCain learned”
@HeidiHeitkamp invoked the last time a party nominated someone so old:
“This has to be someone capable of being president,” she said, alluding to “the lesson John McCain learned”
Given Biden’s gut politics, a number of Dems believe he’s most likely to pick somebody w whom he has a personal connnection. Someone whose measure he has taken.
And that could give his former foes in the primary a leg up.
And that could give his former foes in the primary a leg up.
...that said, some Biden allies are lobbying for two candidates who’ve not gotten much attention to date:
@GovMLG
and
@AmbassadorRice
@GovMLG
and
@AmbassadorRice
